Tag archive: SCSI

Storage giant Hitachi and chipmaker Intel have announced plans to develop enterprise-class solid-state drives for use in servers and workstations, using high-performance Serial-Attached SCSI and Fiber Channel interfaces. The companies expect to ship their first products in early 2010…and, if nothing else, the announcement signals both that SSDs are getting closer to the mainstream in storage technology, and hint at what may be… Read More

Quote from the review: “ALTHOUGH SCSI DRIVES have long boasted higher reliability, longer warranties, faster spindle speeds, and generally better performance than IDE and Serial ATA drives, SCSI storage density has been one step behind. Today's largest Serial ATA drives offer 400GB of storage capacity, and while these exotic monsters are rare, 200-250GB SATA drives are widely available for as low as $130. In the SCSI world,… Read More

Reinforcing its leadership position in all major disc drive market segments, and further extending the industry's broadest product portfolio, Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) today introduced an unprecedented array of new products targeting applications ranging from MP3 players to DVRs and other consumer electronics, notebook computers, PCs, servers and corporate data centers. These new disc drives include the world's first 1-inch… Read More

The high performance capabilities of Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives were validated recently, when WD Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA drives from Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) outperformed 10,000 and 15,000RPM SCSI drives from two competitors in separate independent, head-to-head comparison tests conducted by and published in the June issue of Maximum PC magazine and the upcoming July issue of CustomPC magazine (UK). “Going into this test, we… Read More

The highest performance Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive available today, and the only one that spins at 10,000 RPM, WD Raptor is a high-end option on Dell's Precision workstation and Dimension PCmodels, including the new Dimension XPS model built for power users and extreme gamers. Customers now can order Precision workstations or Dimension desktop PCs with one or two WD Raptor 36 GB drives from http://www.dell.com/. WD Raptor drives deliver… Read More